Lesson timetable

Learning outcomes

1. To provide the main coordinates of the history of the city and of territories subject to it between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. 2. To insert the history of the Republic within the international political, diplomatic and economic developments. 3. Focus on some issues relating to the cultural dimension (learned and popular), including the role of Venice as a centre for the elaboration of religious dissent. 4. Emphasize the political peculiarities of the Venetian experience in a comparative perspective with other Italian and European contexts
Prerequisites: knowledge, at high school level, the main features of medieval and early modern history.

Syllabus

Course Content:

• The political and administrative organization of the Venetian state
• The patriciate (structure and composition, social role)
• The economy (markets and merchants, the economy of city and of the mainland, the merchant fleet)
• The administration of justice in Venice and in the territories of the State
• Society and ways of life (daily life, consumption, food, diseases and cures, beliefs etc.)
• Venice in the international context
• Religion (the ecclesiastical organization and folk religion. The inquisition and heresy).
• Publishing and book trade
• Public opinion and its control (newspapers and journals, ridotti and coffee-houses, ambassadors, State Inquisitors, forbidden books etc.)
• Culture (the arts and sciences, academies, the printing press, popular culture)
• Spaces and times of daily life
• Myth and anti-myth of Venice